Best and Worst of CMJ '08, Vol. 2

SPIN editors make their notable concert picks from the New York fest. Click here to see which bands made our list!
Passion Pit / Photo by Matt Kiser

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The 9 Hottest New Bands Playing CMJ 2008

Free downloads! Hear SPIN.com's top CMJ discoveries without leaving the comfort of your own home.
Clockwise from top left: Late of the Pier, Passion Pit, Ezra Furman & the Harpoons, Chairlift

New York's annual smorgasbord of new music -- the CMJ Music Marathon -- is here (Oct. 21-26), bringing hopeful bands to this fair hamlet's varied venues in ungodly numbers of 15-passenger vans. To save you the work, we've sorted through dozens of MP3s and MySpace pages, identifying the hot-sounding talents you might not have heard before.

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